Peter Singer

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

Open the Cages!

Can “capitalism at its best” be a force against animal suffering?

What’s Left Hanging?

The Death of Aaron Swartz

Access to the Internet, and the prosecution of Aaron Swartz for the crimes he was alleged to have committed in advancing that cause, are not the only, and perhaps not even the most important, issues raised by Swartz’s death. A third is depression.

Chimp Talk

Can Chimps Converse?: An Exchange

The Troubled Life of Nim Chimpsky

The Sad Life of Nim Chimpsky

*Project Nim*, a new documentary by James Marsh, tells the sad story of a scientist’s irresponsible treatment of Nim, the chimp he tamed—or more strictly, whose upbringing in a human family he organized—and it raises important issues about the distinction between humans and animals, about our attitudes toward animals, and about scientific objectivity (or the lack thereof) in behavioral research.

David Oppenheim’s Case

Animal Liberation at 30

Experimenting on Animals

‘Animal Liberation’: An Exchange

Necessary Suffering?

Bandit and Friends

Academic Freedom in Germany

On Being Silenced in Germany

Preserving the Landscape

Salt of the Earth

They Didn’t Use Animals

Animal Experiments